Wrest Park
Wrest Park is a country estate located in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England. It comprises Wrest Park, a Grade I listed country house, and Wrest Park Gardens, also Grade I listed, formal gardens surrounding the mansion.Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Park
- Description: country estate near Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Wrest Park House” and “Wrest Park House and service block comprising pavilions, clock tower and the dairy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Star And Garter Public House and Thrift Wood.
Thrift Wood
Forest
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thrift Wood is a 19.4-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Bicknacre in Essex. It is managed by the Essex Wildlife Trust.
Parish Church of Saint Margaret
Church
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parish Church of Saint Margaret is situated 2 miles southeast of Wrest Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Silsoe and Upper Gravenhurst.
Silsoe
Village
Photo: Ojw, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Silsoe is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. The village used to be on the main A6 road but a bypass around the village was opened in 1981 at a cost of £1.6m.
Upper Gravenhurst
Village
Photo: Rodney Burton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upper Gravenhurst is a village in the civil parish of Gravenhurst, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. The Church of St Giles has been established in the village since the 12th Century.
Clophill
Village
Photo: Richard Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Clophill is a village and civil parish clustered on the north bank of the River Flit, Bedfordshire, England. It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Clopelle. Clophill is situated 1½ miles north of Wrest Park.
Wrest Park
- Categories: estate and English country house
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Wrest Park from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wrest Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wrest Park”
- Chinese: “雷斯特花园”
- French: “Wrest Park”
- Japanese: “レスト・パーク”
- Spanish: “Wrest Park”
- Swedish: “Wrest Park”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as West End and Lower Gravenhurst.
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